Cari Jansen

New InDesign Extension – Find/Change Attributes

Cari Jansen — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:43:20 +0000

The Find/Change Attributes extension allows you to load formatting attributes from selected text into InDesign's Find/Change dialog box. That's a handy feature to have for a range of production scenarios, but for me in particular it's something I use a lot when cleaning up supplied InDesign files prior to EPUB conversion.

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Tomaxxi’s Script: Renaming images from within InDesign

Cari Jansen — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:17:12 +0000

Some time ago Tomaxxi (Marijan Tompa) wrote a small script that allows you to rename images from within InDesign. You might wonder why you’d want to use a script like this? Well, I actually found myself using it this morning as part of an EPUB production process. I’d received client-supplied print artwork in InDesign, and the Links used in the...read more →

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Multi-Find/Change 1.02 Released

Cari Jansen — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:14:02 +0000

Martinho da Gloria (www.automatication.com), this week released the 1.02 update for the Mulit-Find/Change plug-in he developed for InDesign. About this plug-in Whether it’s to fix common formatting issues in manuscripts you import in InDesign for book and EBook publishing, such as removal of double tabs, spaces, paragraph returns, conversion of hyphens to en or em-dashes. Or to apply paragraph/character styles...read more →

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Footnotes and Endnotes with InDesign…

Cari Jansen — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:41:27 +0000

Updated 13-Nov-2010, added Footnotes Note. Received an email today in which the following question was asked: “Is there an InDesign add-on that you know of that a) can take static endnotes and transform them to dynamic (i.e. linked) footnotes and b) can change static endnotes to dynamic endnotes”. InDesign has support for dynamic footnotes. This means that the application retains a connection...read more →

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Moving print publications to EPUB – Part 3

Cari Jansen — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:59:55 +0000

Part 3: Handling grouped illustrations This is the third in a series of articles I’m dedicating to conversion of print publications to EPUB. The first article covered handling of content order, the second looked at controlling break points in EPUBs. I was going to dedicate the third article on text-formatting, but have decided to return to the topic of graphics...read more →

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Multi-Find/Change for Adobe InDesign and InCopy released

Cari Jansen — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:34:20 +0000

The new Multi-Find/Change Plug-in developed by Martinho da Gloria of Automation is simply amazing… It simplifies the Find/Change process in InDesign by allowing us to build Find/Change sets that include many Find/Change Queries, including those saved within InDesign… and run a series of Find/Change commands grouped within a set with a single mouse-click. The plug-in is user friendly and has...read more →

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AutoFit plug-in for InDesign CS4 released

Cari Jansen — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:48:21 +0000

Typefi announced on Friday that the very cool AutoFit plug-in, a FREE plug-in for InDesign has been released for InDesign CS4. With this plug-in you can turn text frames into soft-bottom / soft-top frames that automatically grow as more text is inserted. Additionally an added tool in InDesigns toolbar allows the setting of relationships between frames, lines etc. So that...read more →

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Tracking plug-in for InDesign

Cari Jansen — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:00:12 +0000

Five interesting workflow publishing plug-ins for InDesign developed by Ctrl Publishing; CtrlBridge CrtlCrossTalk CrtlChanges CtrlPrint CtrlLayers web-reference: http://www.ctrl-ps.com/products

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Creative Suite LIVE – Melbourne (follow-up)

Cari Jansen — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:26:32 +0000

Updated 5-Sep-2008 (fixed incorrect web-link) The following list provides an overview of the Plug-ins and Scripts reviewed during the InDesign Add-Ons session at the Creative Suite LIVE Conference – Melbourne 28-29 September 2008. 01 David Blatner’s Tips for Adobe InDesign Plug-in (Free) Ok, in a perfect world you would launch InDesign no more than once a day, but if you...read more →

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Typefi AutoFit short video added

Cari Jansen — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:17:04 +0000

As promised at last week’s Melbourne InDesign UserGroup, I’ve added a new short Typefi AutoFit video to the Typefi Systems web-page from which you can download this free InDesign plug-in. The video covers soft-bottom frames and bulding of multiple relationships as part of a more complex design element. Web-reference: Typefi AutoFit (2008, Typefi Systems)

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Automatic Frame Resizing with AutoFit

Cari Jansen — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:45:57 +0000

Digitip 066 – Adobe InDesign CS3 / Typefi AutoFit The following tip gives an another example of how the Free Typefi’s Autofit plug-in – downloadable from www.typefi.com can be used with InDesign. In this tip you’ll learn how text is run into a Header-Text Frame and a Body Content Text-Frame that are threaded to eachother. As the text is formatted with...read more →

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Publisher to InDesign

Cari Jansen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:30:21 +0000

It’s quite exciting to see that more and more Microsoft Publisher users are making the jump across to Adobe InDesign. If you are a Microsoft Publisher user and have lots of old Publisher files and would like to convert to InDesign without having to recreate your files in InDesign, Markzware’s PUB2ID plug-in for InDesign can come to your rescue. It...read more →

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Typefi AutoFit Plug-in for InDesign

Cari Jansen — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:36:18 +0000

Typefi Systems on Friday announced the release of a Free Plug-in for Adobe InDesign called Typefi AutoFit. The Plug-in is now available for download and works with CS3 and CS2. This snazzy plug-in enables you to set Text Frame Growth behaviour as more text is inserted in Text Frames as well as relationships between Frames, Lines etc. These relationships in...read more →

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Round Corners and Text Inset

Cari Jansen — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:47:39 +0000

Digitip 059 – Adobe InDesign CS3/ Typefi AutoFit At the InDesign Conference, a gentleman in the audience asked “when I set a text inset for Text Frame, and apply different insets for Top, Left, Right and Bottom, I loose this functionality when I apply a Corner Option to the frame, it turns to Inset”.” Is there anyway around this?” The...read more →

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Art Files for Illustrator

Cari Jansen — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:00:39 +0000

Code Line Communications has produced a stand-alone application for Mac OS (PPC and Universal Binary) that makes packaging Illustrator files for delivery of original .ai file including graphics and fonts to service providers an easier task. Web Reference: ArtFiles (2007, Code Line Communications)

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